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He glanced up, then held his arm out to teach me his birthmark, the single formed like a cobra, the ureas, the spitter of fireplace. “I can take flames into me or allow them to out. you are able to do an identical with wind. ” my very own birthmark was once formed like a sail, and that i stroked it now, desirous about each one freckle. “Does that suggest . . . is that this typhoon my doing? ” “I don’t recognize. fireplace seeks me out. it can be a similar for you with wind. ” He got here to my aspect with a skein of water and taken it to my dry lips. I drank eagerly, knowing merely now that my throat used to be parched. I must have used the oil the best way Tala advised me to, yet from the instant I’d entered this temple, not anything had appeared actual. That used to be all altering now. in the course of our lovemaking, I hadn’t spotted the bandage wrapped around his ribs. yet then spirits and gods couldn’t be wounded. So he was once no shadow or double. “You didn’t die at Thebes . . . ” “I may still have,” he acknowledged, bracing his again opposed to the stone wall. “There weren’t many survivors, yet what few there have been, my males and that i evacuated to Hermonthis. ” It used to be unusual to listen to him speak of his males, as though he have been an army commander like Agrippa. up to I’d replaced within the time on account that we’d been aside, Helios had replaced much more. He appeared like a tender fighter, one of many boys they enrolled within the legions. “Magic and religion can’t win wars, you stated, Selene. in simple terms squaddies can. You have been correct and that i used to be unsuitable approximately every thing . . . ” After the conflict of Actium, in defeat, my father had brooded in a cabin by means of the water and while he eventually emerged there has been a hollowness to him. a few type of loss of life sooner than dying. I’d by no means suggestion to determine this kind of factor back, but if I checked out my dual now, I glimpsed that very same abyss and knew I wasn’t the one one who’d come to this temple all damaged within. “What occurred to you, Helios? ” I reached to examine his wound and he pulled away. “It’s not anything. A glancing blow. ” He unstopped an amphora of olives and the 2 folks ate in silence. whilst he ultimately spoke back, he acknowledged, “I realized of your marriage . . . ” I flinched, staring down at my betrothal ring. “I didn’t are looking to marry Juba. It’s no real marriage. ” “You don’t need to justify your self to me, Selene. I didn’t come right here to accuse you. ” “Then why did you come back? ” I requested, nonetheless part sure that I’d conjured him. “I needed to see you one final time. ” I hated the sound of that. “How may you recognize to discover me during this temple? How might you recognize that I’d come? ” “When I heard of your marriage to Juba, I knew you’d make landfall in Mauretania. as soon as I arrived, I handed this crumbling little temple and knew you’d locate it too . . . ” It nonetheless appeared too dreamlike. I needed to lean opposed to his shoulder to reassure myself of the heat and substance of him. “Who is familiar with that you’re the following? ” “No one,” he stated with a shake of that golden head. the warmth of the hurricane had dried his curls and mine. “There’s a again front to the basement the place they shop previous choices. I broke the chain . . . Selene, I intended again for you on the head of a military, to free up you and Philadelphus the best way we used to dream Caesarion could.